Latest Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes from Interviews

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• Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Mind, Different

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures, because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong. If I was born in Japan, I would speak about Buddhism, but I was born in South America.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Religious, Strong, Latin

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Religious, Compare, Difficult

  Source: film.avclub.com

• In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Latin, Latin America

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I'm not making pictures thinking of the public, I'm making pictures to realize myself.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Thinking, Realizing

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Important, Scared, Realizing

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Santa Sangre is the picture I love the best, myself, because El Topo and The Holy Mountain I made with my head, and Santa Sangre I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Real, Heart, Emotional

  Source: film.avclub.com

• For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Mother, Son, Tragedy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Style, Together, Tragedy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. And you are like in some kind of possession, where you are doing anything to get the visual. You become another person. You're becoming an artist in action. And then a lot of miracles come. A lot of discovering. It's a very complicated thing.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Miracle, Soul

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't see myself as a movie maker only. When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live. I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Every person has a talent, but not the same one. Every person has to discover his personal talent and go with his talent. And then you are you, and what you do, you do because you love what you do, not because you want to be famous or because you're making money. You do the work because you love it.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Talent, Making Money

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate yourself. Do it. Believe in yourself. Let a good seed be a good seed now, and then we'll have a good tree.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Believe, Fighting, Tree

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Perfection, Feelings, Sublime

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Terrorists are not bad; they are limited by circumstances. They are human beings. I am very, very, very sad when they explode themselves and kill 40 to 60 persons. It's terrible. But also, I am sad for them, a young person who lost his whole life. It's terrible. They are limited by religion, by politics, by economical interests.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Very Sad, Circumstances, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Real, Book

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• Words don't heal. Art heals!

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Heal

• I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Character, Thinking, Names

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Artist, Artwork, Persons

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Dream, Fighting, Trying

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Car, Groups

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s prophetic vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Reality, Giving

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

• What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Stars, Artist, Simple

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.